a truth about my art.
The art gatekeeping is coming from inside the house….
What do you do when you know about a wolf in sheep’s clothing? When a monster hides among us? How does Cassandra feel reading the headlines?
I don’t doubt that many of us, especially marginalized people, have had these experiences. Someone lauded by a larger community singles us out personally to be a predator to. These abusers design themselves a web of no accountability and no possibility for criticism.
Intersectionality has become unfortunately a word that privileged “activists” have used to deflect their Whiteness by over emphasizing any minute personality trait that may make them seem marginalized in the eyes of Queen Elizabeth.
Mother Theresa and white money tried to train my art and my truth.
It’s just too bad that THE TRUTH is the strongest.
Autoimmune Disease - Diagnosis Journey & RubyFEST
Hello friends and followers.
I feel that it is time to share on my public art platform about more details of my current life.
The first thing that I want to say is that, literally every moment of a day I am physically able to work on art, I am streaming it on my Twitch.tv for you to join in! So please follow me on twitch as MeheenRuby.
I’m actually typing this during a stream.
It’s a good way to boost my mood while “working” - I am on medical leave from all work at the moment and using art as a therapy tool to cope with my illness rather than a way to generate income since the first week of May.
In April I began to feel some serious health symptoms. The symptoms have progressed to the point where after early May I was physically unable to drive or complete my job tasks and many common household tasks.
As some of the physical symptoms have alleviated, specifically the pinched nerve injury, I still have serious symptoms from Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Uterine fibroids and potential Endometriosis, and an Autoimmune myopathy, potentially myositis in some form.
Over the next several months I have many scheduled appointments including a consultation about proceeding with a diagnostic surgery.
I am optimistic and heartened by the love and support of my community.
Please clear your calendars for Friday, September 13th. I would like to share with you not just my work but the work of my support system of loving and talented artists, musicians, writers, scientists, and teachers.
I have received nothing but help from my community. Whatever ails me, I plan to adjust and heal as much as is reasonable. For now I have secure access to health care. However that may not always be the case if I am unable to do some serious fundraising. Shockingly my first needs fundraiser to cover housing costs and medical bill support became fully funded within 3 days and exceeded my expectations.